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Agentic AI and the “Human-in-the-Loop” Luxury in Modern Defense

Welcome to the inaugural edition of “The Iron Triangle”, my new Cipher Brief column that serves the three pillars of modern defense: Procurement Officers tasked with buying the future, Investors who ...

How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife

A facial recognition tool for bears called BearID is under development by computer scientists Ed Miller and Mary Nguyen, working with Melanie Clapham, a behavioral ecologist working for the Nanwakolas ...
Nature

‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI

Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single petal. Instead, he ...
IEEE

Machine Learning Approaches for Software Fault Diagnosis: Evaluating Decision Tree and KNN Models

Abstract: This research study explores the predictive modeling of software errors by employing machine learning techniques, using the PC1 dataset extracted from PROMISE Software engineering repository ...
IEEE

Obstacle-Avoiding X-Architecture Bounded-Skew Tree Algorithm Under Timing Slack Constraints

Abstract: As interconnect delay increasingly becomes the primary source of chip delay, timing analysis in the very large-scale integration (VLSI) routing process is becoming more crucial. Concurrently ...
eLife

Separating selection from mutation in antibody language models

This important study introduces a new biology-informed strategy for deep learning models aiming to predict mutational effects in antibody sequences. It provides solid evidence that separating ...